Dan Seavey, who finished third in the first-ever running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and ... purse to help ensure the race could continue,” wrote Jessie Holmes, this year’s Iditarod ...

FILE - Dan Seavey prepares to leave the Skwentna, Alaska, checkpoint of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Monday, March 5, 2012. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP,File) FILE - Dan Seavey ...

Dan Seavey, who helped organize the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and whose son and grandson have each won the famous Alaska race multiple times, has died. He was 87. The Minnesota native ...